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A couple weeks ago, almost off-handedly, one of the administrators at the yard said that I should write an article on how I shoot street. Apparently, he thought that there are people out there who might find value in such a thing. "Give me a week!", I ignorantly boasted, then set about the task of organizing my normally random thoughts into something cohesive. It didn't take me long to realize that such an article would be all but impossible for me to pen. I mean, I know and use the technical aspects of the medium, which are well known and I won't go into here. I also commonly utilize some specific techniques, which I will go into a little below. However, the use of these techniques aren't consistent or ubiquitous to my work, so including them as absolutes in a "how to" guide on how I shoot street would be somewhat dishonest. And yet as I look through my work there is a consistency to it. There is enough of a consistency that even on the rare occasion that I do something completely different, like change from black & white film to another medium, the photograph still somehow "fits" with my other street work. The "why" is the most important point that I want you, the reader, to take out of this article. And it is the last point I will make. First, let's go over the easy, more formulaic stuff. These are techniques I use commonly and find helpful in getting the image recorded. |
